Impact in Schools
We’ve been finding the Online Library super-helpful for children who have been isolating and it will be a brilliant tool to have if we have to close a ‘bubble’.
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“We assessed our other reading books and book bands against Reading
Planet and found that the other schemes didn’t match up. Reading Planet is
higher quality, better in levels of text, better stories, more relevant content
and even even uses the punctuation relevant to the year group.
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During the lockdown period, we have found the Reading Planet Online Library to be an essential resource for parents in supporting reading at home.
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The Online Library has helped us to be able to offer reading books linked specifically to the children's stage of reading and phonics level
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The Reading Planet Online Library has been an invaluable tool in supporting reading across our school during the period of school closure and as we have moved into the phased return.
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We also like the Galaxy fiction and non-fiction and the new KS2 fiction titles - the quality of stories is excellent and the non-fiction supports our direction of travel with reading to support knowledge.
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We have pretty much cast aside all other reading schemes now as we assessed our other reading books and book bands against Reading Planet and found that the other schemes didn’t match up.
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Our Phonics pass rate improved by 11% to 83% and we saw a 10% increase in the KS1 Reading SATs results, with 15% increase in greater depth.
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In Year 2, we have enjoyed using the Reading Planet books for shared group reading with a wide ability range - using the online books has been fantastic for whole class sessions because even the less able can participate and repeat after the audio.
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The children have engaged with all the Reading Planet strands and the bookband levels are more in line, even in the non-fiction which is often an issue with other schemes.
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The Teacher Guides have been helpful for the teaching assistants and we love the assessment sheets. They are great to use to show parents where there are still gaps or whether the children should be moved up a level.
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We have now chosen Reading Planet to be our reading scheme going forward. The teachers prefer it and they feel that it has contributed to the improved reading SATs results.
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We would definitely recommend Reading Planets to other schools. The books are of extremely high quality, beautifully illustrated and really match age related reading expectations.
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'It makes it easy to encourage him to read with me'
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The books expose the children to different topics, and link with other books and subjects we’re already teaching
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Importantly, the scheme features modern day topics such as well-being and resilience, which we teach in other lessons
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We have several book band schemes in school and without question, it is the Reading Planet books that the children look out for time and time again.
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The teaching support that Reading Planet provides us is great. It has detailed instructions and helpful prompts to make sure we’re getting the most out of every guided reading session.
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Find out what teachers, parents and children think of Reading Planet.
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Reading Planet really redefines our
understanding of how children learn
to read. It challenges our approach
and encourages us to think how we
teach phonics.
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